Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the United States census of 1900 there were ginned in Elbertcounty for the season of 1899-1900, 14,945 bales of upland cotton. There are 931 sheep, with a wool-clip of 1,227 pounds; 6,493 cattle,420 working oxen, 2,564 milch-cows with a product of 590,205 gallonsof milk and 201,421 pounds of butter; 1,258 horses, 1,340 mules, 4donkeys, 7,077 swine, 114,606 poultry of various kinds. Some of theother products are 77,698 dozens of eggs and 18,808 pounds of honey. The water-powers of the county are immense. There are two cotton-mills, one at Elberton and the other at Beverly on Beaver Dam creek,both built by Georgia capital. There are also a large cotton seed oil-mill,3 small flour and grist-mills, several small sa-v\Tnills, 3 guano factories anda new $10,000 flonring-mill Avith patent roller process, haAang a capacityof 100 barrels a day; 2 carriage factories, and 4 quarries of the bestgranite for building puri^oses. Elberton, the county site with a population of 3,834, at the junction.
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EARLY RICHMOND. One of the hardiest of ail cherries ; bears early and al)iuidantly ; a inosl valuable markil friiil excellent for cooking; or drying ; desirable for the extreme North and poj)ular everywhere. May and Jnnc Trees of this clas«;, 5 feet GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD IXDISTRIAL. 049 of the Seaboard Air Line and one of the numerous branches of the greatSouthern system, is one of tlie beet built tmd uiotJt progi-e^sive towns ofGeorgia. It has electric lights and two banks with ade^juate capitiil togive it excellent commercial advantages. A tine system of w^ater-worksis in process of construction. Here are located the majority of the manu-factories of the county. The handsome court-house cost $35,000. Outof 30,000 bales of cotton received and shipped from this county, Elber-ton handles 23,000 bales. About 6,000 bales per annum are used by thetwo cotton-mills. The population of the Elberton district by the censusof 1900 was 4,841. Schools and churches are in every neighborhood. The

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